Dr. John Lott's newest piece at Fox News on the new Texas law going into effect on Monday starts this way: Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the 1966 sniper shooting that left 14 dead at the University of Texas at Austin. The killer, a former marine, murdered his...
op-ed
CPRC in the Los Angeles Times: “We adjust for population with murder rates. Why not for mass shootings?”
Dr. John Lott's newest piece in the Los Angeles Times describes research in his new book, The War on Guns. Many believe that the United States is unique in terms of mass public shootings. Even after the attacks last November that left 130 dead in Paris, President...
CPRC at Fox News: “Do Democrats want to disarm minorities?”
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox New on the Democratic National Convention: On Tuesday night, the mother of Trayvon Martin praised Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia for having “the courage to lead the fight for common-sense gun...
CPRC at the National Review: Gun Control Is Not the Answer to Shootings that Kill Police Officers
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at National Review starts this way: Democrats keep using shootings of police officers to push for more gun control. Having just arrived in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention, the Reverend Jesse Jackson complained on...
CPRC in The Weekly Standard: “When the subject is guns, politics trumps history,” reviewing Pamela Haag’s book “The Gunning of America”
Shots Fired When the subject is guns, politics trumps history. AUG 01, 2016 | By JOHN R. LOTT JR. Pamela Haag calls gun makers “merchants of death." And America's love affair with guns, she says, didn't really start until the late 1800s, when the "merchants of death"...
CPRC in the Los Angeles Times: Yes, gun-free zones are targets — and research proves it
Dr. John Lott had a letter to the editor in the Los Angeles Times responding to an error filled op-ed by gun control advocates Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes, who appear to be part of the Bloomberg funded gun control network. To the editor: Evan DeFilippis’ and...
CPRC in the New York Post: Obama’s false racism claims are putting cops’ lives in danger
Dr. John Lott's latest piece in the New York Post raises concerns about how President Obama sees racism whenever there is a difference in outcomes. One sentence that was cut from the piece due to space constraints noted: "President Obama’s claim makes as much sense...
CPRC at Fox News: The ‘FBI primary’ is over: Hillary dodged criminal charges for one simple reason
Dr. Lott's newest Fox News piece on FBI Director James Comey's decision not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton starts this way: Hillary Clinton likely dodged criminal charges Tuesday for a simple reason: the bar for bringing criminal charges against...
CRPC at National Review: The Case for More Concealed Handguns
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at National Review that was the top piece on their page on Wednesday. The piece, which covers the lessons that we have learned after Orlando, starts this way: In a new Gallup poll released, a nearly two-to-one margin of Americans (64 to...
CPRC at Fox News: “The dirty secret about the four Senate gun control bills”
Dr. Lott's piece at Fox News starts this way: In Orlando on Thursday, President Obama again called on Congress to do something about these mass public shootings. But the dirty secret about the four different bills that the Senate will vote on Monday is that everyone...
CPRC in the Orange County Register: “Background checks, watchlists ineffective”
Dr. John Lott's piece in the Sunday, June 19th Orange County Register is as follows: Everyone wants to keep dangerous people from getting weapons. But in her statements on Monday, Hillary Clinton revealed a lack of concern for the actual facts of the Orlando massacre....
CPRC Debating CeaseFirePA about Banning Assault Weapons in the Philadelphia Inquirer and many other newspapers
With President Obama using his weekly radio address to call for a ban on assault weapons, this debate couldn't have been more timely. From Obama's comments: “Being tough on terrorism -- particularly the sorts of homegrown terrorism that we’ve seen now in Orlando and...